Page 1339 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 10 May 1994
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Trade Union Membership
MR KAINE: I put a question to Mr Lamont, the Minister for Industrial Relations. Minister, last year the Assembly amended the Discrimination Act so as to make it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of membership of any association or organisation. Is the Minister aware of any instance in the ACT where employers require prospective employees to join trade unions as a precondition for employment? Does the Minister know of any existing enterprise agreement between an employer and a trade union which requires that all employees join the trade union? Would the Minister agree that, if either of those situations occurs, then employers are committing illegal acts under the Discrimination Act?
MR LAMONT: The answers to your questions, Mr Kaine, are no, no, and I will verify the last point for you.
Mr Kaine: Would you verify the first two as well?
MR LAMONT: I thought I just did.
Canberra in the Year 2020 Study
MS SZUTY: Madam Speaker, my question without notice is addressed to the Chief Minister, Ms Follett. In asking this question I remind the Chief Minister of her enthusiastic support for the Canberra in the Year 2020 study. My question of the Chief Minister is: Can she inform the Assembly of the Government's progress in implementing the seven recommendations made by the Canberra in the Year 2020 Reference Group in its report Vision for Prosperity and in particular whether a Minister has been designated to be responsible for long-term strategies?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, to answer the last part first, I have not allocated myself the responsibility for the 2020 study. The majority of the recommendations fall within Mr Wood's portfolio, and he has embraced them enthusiastically. As I said when I tabled the study, the results of that 2020 study really form an agenda, a guideline, for future government action, and it is on that basis that we have embraced the report. If Ms Szuty wishes, or if any member wishes, I am happy to provide something of a progress report. Madam Speaker, Ms Szuty indicates that she would indeed like to see that. I think it best if we coordinate a cross-government survey of progress on the 2020 study recommendations. Mr Wood, I am sure, would be delighted to undertake that task and present the results to the Assembly for the information of all members.
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